Visiting Academics

Chair for the Study of Western Hemispheric Trade

This endowment underwrites the costs of bringing scholars to UT Austin to teach, participate in conferences, or give lectures. For more information, contact Paola Bueche at 512.232.2405.

Scholars whose visits have been funded by this endowment include:

This program may also support conferences each year with issues relevant to trade and development studies.

Upcoming conferences in 2005-06

The Mexico 2006 Panel Study: Electoral Campaigns and Political Representation in a New Democracy
Kenneth Green, Department of Government

Creation of a Brazil- U.S. Communications Media Research Network
Joseph Straubhaar, Department of Radio-Television-Film

Decentralization and Grassroots Participation in Development Initiatives
Bryan Roberts, Department of Sociology
Chandler Stolp, LBJ School of Public Affairs
Robert Wilson, LBJ School of Public Affairs

Urban Rehabilitation of Consolidated Irregular Settlements in Latin American Cities: Towards a "Third Generation" of Public Policy Analysis and Development
Peter Ward, LBJ School of Public Affairs

Social Impact of Television in Brazil
Joseph Potter, Population Research Center and the Department of Sociology

2005 Annual National Forum on Trade Policy
David Platt, Department of Accounting, McCombs School of Business